You should consider process death a natural part of your app’s lifecycle. The important part is to make sure that the memory reclamation associated with killing a process does not negatively affect the user.

repeatWhen and retryWhen are fairly baffling at first glance: they allow you to conditionally resubscribe to Observables that have terminated. Dan Lew recently studied how they worked and I want to try to explain them.

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This episode is all about Android Studio. In particular, Tor & Chet talk about the latest features and massive performance improvements in the Android Studio preview that was detailed at the Android Dev Summit and which has been in development and under improvement since then.

Events

Appnext is sponsoring the GDC trips for the game developers running its Rewarded Video SDK. The promotion is live until March, 5th and includes the flights, conference passes and accommodation in San Francisco.